To get you acquatined with the geovisualization process, this assignment will lead you step-by-step in developing a geovisualization using Google Sheets and an online tool called Umap. Those will give some tools to quickly develop and publish geovisualizations.
Immersion: a psychological state in which the user is enveloped by, included in, and able to interact with the environment and provides a continuous stream of stimuli and experiences.
Interactivity: an important element of interactivity is developing suitable approaches for navigating through visualizations.
There are large amounts of spatial data on the web that can be easily obtained and wrangled into a visualization. For example, population living in poverty can be found in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_percentage_of_population_living_in_poverty and median income can be found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income.
Other useful sites include https://data.un.org/ and https://www.cdc.gov/datastatistics/index.html .
Let’s construct a map quickly. For this exercise we need data with a simple geographic identifier (i.e. country name, state or province name). For now, use this data:https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_TyG3ULMayTm2Ql_7UPjw3994m0pGW7U5xMV3y6chEo. Make a copy of this sheet in your Google Drive.
Eventually you will navigate to spatial data on Wikipedia, and copy and paste it into Google sheets (make a specific folder in your Google Drive that you will save this data - don’t add any data that you don’t want to make public as we will change the access later in the process). Make any data modifications that are needed (e.g. add headers, issues with data format, unreadable symbols).
Finally, feel free to transform your variables (i.e calculate ) or make other visualization that enhance your result (e.g. chart). Embed them with your map using the instructions below.
There are several ways to save your map. You can simply save it as a png by hitting the ellipsis and choosing download and save as PNG.
You might also want to retain the interactivity. In that case, you will want to choose Publish the chart and hit the tab Embed. Copy the data and view it in any HTML viewer.
In this exercise we are going to make an interactive general reference map using the online mapper call Umap.
Create a Map , which will take you to the data windowshape properties, Advanced properties, Interaction properties coordinates and Advanced actions.